Devil's Apron Pub

Temporary gallery and staged pub at Skippergata 12B during Tromsø International Film Festival, 2017, by Devil’s Apron (Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg and Trond Ansten).

After recipe trials at Galleri Napa (Young Arctic Artist, Rovaniemi, 2016), the duo opened a public bar that served only seaweed brew and seaweed snacks. Local professors, fishermen, and artists worked as bartenders. A house band (Marita Isobel Solberg / MARAS, Erik Nilsson, Øystein Bolstad) played; DJs and live music ran each night. Behind the toilet, a hidden underground cinema looped the film Devil’s Apron, A Journey in Seaweed, Punk, and Brewing Culture in the North.

The pub was a social trial of the same brewing research that later expanded into Algal Bloom on Træna the same summer.

Photography: Ansten / Devil’s Apron documentation.